Bibliograph

Lose your mother, a journey along the Atlantic slave route, Saidiya Hartman

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Lose your mother, a journey along the Atlantic slave route, Saidiya Hartman

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-258) and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Lose your mother

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

71312800

Responsibility statement

Saidiya Hartman

Sub title

a journey along the Atlantic slave route

Summary

"Saidiya Hartman traces the history of the Atlantic slave trade by recounting a journey she took along a slave route in Ghana. Following the trail of captives from the hinterland to the Atlantic coast, Hartman reckons with the blank slate of her own genealogy and vividly dramatizes the effects of slavery on three centuries of African and African-American history."--Front flap of jacket

Table Of Contents

Prologue: the path of strangers -- Afrotopia -- Markets and martyrs -- The family romance -- Come, go back, child -- The tribe of the middle passage -- So many dungeons -- The dead book -- Lose your mother -- The dark days -- The famished road -- Blood cowries -- Fugitive dreams

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